The bucket : memories of an inattentive childhood
Ahlberg, Allan, 1938-2013
Book
Adoption was a shameful business then in many people's eyes, the babies being mostly illegitimate. Allan Ahlberg was adopted as a baby. In 1938 he was picked up in London by his new mother and taken back to Oldbury in the Black Country. Now one of the most successful children's book writers in the world, in 'The Bucket' he describes an oddly enchanted childhood lived out in an industrial town during the 1940s, in conditions which today we might describe as 'deprived'.
Main title:
The bucket : memories of an inattentive childhood / Allan Ahlberg ; with illustrations by Janet Ahlberg, Fritz Wegner, Charlotte Voake, Jessica Ahlberg.
Author:
Ahlberg, Allan, 1938-, authorAhlberg, Janet, 1944-1994, illustratorWegner, Fritz, illustratorVoake, Charlotte, illustratorAhlberg, Jessica, illustrator
Imprint:
London : Viking, 2013.
Collation:
xii, 129 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 19 cm
ISBN:
9780670923038 (hbk)9780241965658 (ebook)
Dewey class:
823.9'14
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
135435